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Experimental HIV drugs restore health of artist, many others

It's been nearly five years since Vancouver artist Tiko Kerr reluctantly stepped into the national spotlight to become the modern face of AIDS in Canada.

At the time, Kerr's fight centred around his access -- or lack thereof -- to an experimental drug therapy that doctors in B.C. believed was the best and only chance to save his life, and the lives of other HIV-positive patients who had become immune to every other available treatment.

Health Canada officials had initially denied the drugs in question on the grounds their safe use had not yet been scientifically proven. Without it, however, the men would surely die. More >>